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About Silverstein's Verse

 

When government regulators forced banks to reduce excessive fees they charge consumers on debit cards, and excessive fees they charge merchants on credit cards purchases, banks started charging excessive fees on checking acounts. Banks don't think they're to blame for these new excessive fees because....

The Regulators
Made Them Do It

We dearly love our customers,
It hurts when we can't please,
We knew they wouldn't like it
When we stiffed them with more fees.

But we need that extra income,
From The Street we get that goad
'Cause their analysts will diss us
For any lesser profit load.

We dearly love our customers,
We don't need more bank haters,
So if new bank fees tick you off
Just blame the regulators.

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©2011 Michael Silverstein

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